Example sentences of "thinks [noun] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 2 | The Observer commented that ‘ apparently network controller Michael Green thinks books are well enough covered in programmes such as ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Nightwaves ’ , and plugged to death on Melvyn Bragg 's ‘ start the Week ’ ’ . |
| 3 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 4 | David Hinchliffe thinks individuals are more at risk in the privacy of their own homes . |
| 5 | Everyone thinks lesbians are only in prison , but I know loads of women from the outside who have n't even been to prison who are lesbians . |
| 6 | But he thinks people are entitled to their privacy . |
| 7 | It 's what she thinks people are for . |
| 8 | Mr Holbeche suggests the badger is now ludicrously over-protected as a result of lobbying by influential animal welfare and nature conservation groups , so that the public now thinks badgers are nice cuddly creatures which can do no wrong . |
| 9 | Jan thinks holidays are for wimps . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You strike me as the kind of fierce little feminist who thinks men are beneath her contempt , rapists one and all . ’ |
| 11 | She thinks women are traditionally and unfairly given children to paint , because they seem able to ‘ deal ’ with them : ‘ they think they 'll be more ‘ at home with a woman ’ . ’ |
| 12 | She thinks five-year-olds are grubs that have n't yet hatched out . ’ |
| 13 | They make a good team — Lester a black man who thinks James are the greatest , Norman a white man whose life was changed when he heard James Brown . |